Ruthenian
# Ruthenian

Ruthenian or Ruthene may refer to:

## Places

* Ruthenia, a name applied to various East Slavic inhabited lands
   * White Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
   * Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
   * Red Ruthenia, an East Slavic historical region
   * Carpathian Ruthenia, a historical region inhabited mostly by Rusyns (Rusynia)
   * Ruthenian Voivodeship, a historical province (1434–1772)

## Peoples

* Ruthenians, an exonymic name applied to various East Slavic peoples:
   * Belarusians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as White Ruthenians
   * Rusyns, sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenians
      * Pannonian Rusyns
   * Ukrainians, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as South Ruthenians

## Languages

* Old East Slavic, language of the medieval Rus' (sometimes referred to as Ruthenian)
* Ruthenian language, East Slavic language of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
   * Belarusian language, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as White Ruthenian
   * Rusyn language, sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ruthenian
      * Pannonian Rusyn, sometimes referred to as Ruthenian
   * Ukrainian language, sometimes referred to (in historical context) as South Ruthenian

## Religion

* Ruthenian Rite, an exonymic designation for the East Slavic form of the Byzantine Rite
* Ruthenian Catholic Church (historical), that existed from the 15th to the 18th century
* Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church, one of the 23 particular (sui iuris) Eastern Catholic Churches

## Other

* Ruthenian nobility, East Slavic nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Monarchy
* Minerals containing the element ruthenium
